[DCRM-L] Lemniscate

[Manon Theroux]

Hi Erin,

I don't recall it ever coming up in discussions, so I think it wasn't
a deliberate omission.

I'd vote for adding it to the chart!

Manon

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Cordes, Ellen <ellen.cordes at yale.edu> wrote:
> DCRM(B-S) editors and others,
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> I ran across a couple of prints published in Rome in the 16th century that
> used the lemniscate in place of the M to represent 1000 in the date.
> [Printers who used this convention used the number 8 sideways, apparently,
> though I have never actually seen it.]   It seems like something that (B) or
> (S) would have included in the chart in G2, but did not.  The question came
> up in the context of reviewing the chart in G2 for DCRM(G).
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> There's an interesting brief description of the use of lemniscates at
> http://www2.inetdirect.net/~charta/Roman_numerals.html
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> Was this too obscure to include in G2 in the (B) and (S) modules?
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